News and notes from around the interweb:
- HotelTonight widens its booking window to 100 days out which isn’t… tonight.
- The Economist picks up on the travesty of Senator Menendez’s poor use of American Express Membership Rewards points that’s at the centerpiece of his corruption trial.
Mr Leff argues that the real crime is how poorly Mr Melgen spent his miles. The three-night hotel stay was valued at just under $5,000. That means Melgen redeemed the miles at a value of about three-quarters of a cent per mile. (Air-mile aficionados reckon the going rate is twice as high.) It would have been cheaper for Mr Melgen to spend his cash on the hotel and points on business-class flights. But Mr Melgen probably did not have value on his mind. There were much bigger amounts of money at stake, after all.
- Intercontinental Hotels launched a new midscale brand priced just below Holiday Inn Express but with modern branding, or something.
Credit IHG Hotels Group - Cathay Pacific up to 40,000 bonus miles for US-Hong Kong flights (HT: Loyalty Lobby)
- Amtrak lied to travel agents who questioned ID requirements
- Man suing the St. Regis New York after he was kicked out of their bar for not wearing ‘proper’ attire
Yeah. I saw that. I was trying to think if I should improve my opnion of this blog or decrease my opinion of the economist.
I settled on “you have a relative working there”
Cognitive dissonance!
Nice self-promotion via The Economist.
ohhh so that’s why you linked to the economist (apparently a pay only site)…. you had a plug in there.
seriously man…
@mrredskin – no not a pay only site, i don’t have a subscription and the link works fine for me
One of the minor irritants in life is the dress code of various bars, lounges and restaurants (like one of the watering holes in New York’s St. Regis), especially when not clearly, but discretely, stated for all and sundry to see before attempting to enter. Not everyone who has the status or wealth that should entitle them to enter such establishments has the sixth sense to know what sort of dress those places require. Mr. Simon is evidently one those unfortunates. Too bad he didn’t practice what one of the Proverbs teaches: “A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grevious words stir up anger.”